The Irish standard., 1887-02-05
JUDGE PETER FOOTE SPEAKS
The Chicago Judge is Disguised With
Moral Force. and Advocates
Explosives for England.
PARABLE WITH A MORAL.
In a Letter TO the "Ohioago Citizen" the
Judge Tells What He Knows
About English Rule in Ireland. III

II
In the history of the human race Ire
land stands out as the most cruelty and
the most savagely wronged nation
among the nations Of the earth. Eng
land has been, and is, the blighting
and the malignant cause Of the un-
speakable wrongs that Ireland has he
roically stuff red for seven hundred
years. The. history of England in Ire
land is literally ''the{ history of
crime.'' For seven bloody centuries
England has written the history of Ire
land in irish blood, on the points of
English spears and bayonets. English
savagery in Ireland has aimed at and
succeeded in turning the country into
poorhouse and d graveyard--a poor
house in which to starve the Irish peo-
pie to death, and q graveyard to bury
their famished skeletons. The brutal
ity of Englishmen in Ireland has satur-
ated her soil more profusely with Irish
blood than ever the victorious legions
of pagan Rome watersd Jhe dust OF
Via Sacra with tbe blood and tears of
captive nations.
The hideous and the british monster
called English government in Ireland
has no rights in or out Of Ireland chat
an Irishman is bound to respect. Kill
it! Irishnan owe it, with compound
interest, a dept OF eternal vengeance.
He is NO Irishman who will refuse or
neglect to contribute his share to the
payment of that debt. Talk about
''peaceable agitation!' Nonsense! Ire
land has never regained anything from
England except when the ominous
crack of explosives or something equally
potent was close at the heels OF the
''',eaceable agitator.'
ssReason with John BULL" Nonsense!
IRELAND has never yet gained a hearing
from him until his thick, brutal skull
had been split wide open with the per-
suasive logic Of explosives. 1t was the
musical sound Of ;gunpowaer at Clerk
enwe1l that wrenched the hand Of an
alien and robber church from the throat
of Catholic ireland. The history of
England i'm Ireland is, say again The
history Vt crime, XIII it! 1t has no
rights ia or ost Of Ireland, 1 say again
that Ireland is bound to respect. Kill
it! The end justified the means. The
hideous and yepulsive'monster called all
Engli,sh government i'll Ireland is in Sc
and per Sc ia monster Of such iaorrid
mien, as to he hated needs only 90 be
seen.7' 1t was conserved in insQuity,
born in crime, and raised on human
blood. The thr me on which it sits in
Ireland is based upon one ullbrUken
and continuous act Of gigantic robbery.
That Engksh robbers throne is painted
i1nmeasureably deep with Irish blood,
spilled by the hand Of the English rob-
ber. The motto of the English robber
who occupies that CHASTITY throne is
ssMurder and externHinate the Irishs be-
cause they are Irish..'' ''Reason with
John Bull!'' NonseEse! Listen to this
parable: Once upon a time two mis-
sionaries set out with the laudable iu-
tention of eivilizing aden of feroeious
wild beasts. AS they jo1irneyed a}ong
they entered into discussion as to the
most humane way of attaining the end
for whose accomplishment they had set
out. 81 Think said one Of the mis-
sionaries, t'when reach the den I will
read and explain to the poor ignorant
animals the meaning and Significance
of the dove returning to the ark of Noah
with the olive branch in her mouth"
~ tell YOU what it is" said the other
missionary, ''that ain't no way to con-
vert the kind Of chaps we're after now.
The branch was all right in that birds
mouth, but herself and the branch'll be
mighty soon in the mouth of one of
these chaps we're goin' to convert.
Guess you'll follow mighty quick to
watch the branch and the bird. Don't
try that way Of persuadin' them chaps.'
'sWell," said the ol1ve-branch mis-
siOnary, please tell me what Is your
idea of converting these truly noble and
truly royal beasts from their present
state to the end that they may be ele-
vatel to the dignifed plane Of human
ity" Tell you what it is, friend,"
said the other missionary, Il amt got
no use for them 'ere royal beasts Of
your'n. When I get to that 'ere den
I've made up my mind to give. your
royal beasts apractical explanation and
application of the text that tells all
about the racket Sampson had with the
Philistines. I'll,be Sampson, an don't
You forget 1t, old boy" 81 suppose, .
said the olive-branch missionary, "you
must be one Of these brutal Hirishers
from the blasphemous way in which
Won talk about rOyal beasts.,' ssNO. /